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In a world that often rewards toughness and detachment, could empathy actually be a hidden superpower?
This week, Andrew speaks with psychiatrist and bestselling author Dr. Judith Orloff about how empathy can become one of the most powerful tools for healing, personal growth and connection.
Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, and energy medicine, Judith explains how anyone can deepen their empathic abilities, protect themselves from burnout, and create stronger, more authentic relationships.
Andrew and Judith discuss:
â What it really means to be an empath (and how to tell if you are one)â Strategies to prevent empathy overloadâ The importance of boundaries for empaths.
Dr. Judith Orloff is the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Empathy and The Empathâs Survival Guide. Her upcoming childrenâs book The Highly Sensitive Rabbit, helps sensitive kids embrace their empathic gifts as a strength. Dr. Orloff is a psychiatrist, an empath and intuitive healer, and is on the UCLA Psychiatric Clinical Faculty.
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This week, supporters will hear:
â What is Healthy Giving?â Three things Judith Orloff knows to be trueâď¸AND access to all our previous bonus contentâa rich archive of insight and inspiration
Follow Up
Attend Andrew's new men's retreat, Reconnect With Yourself, this autumn in the Brandenberg countryside near Berlin.
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Read The Genius of Empathy: Practical Skills to Heal Your Sensitive Self, Your Relationships, and the World by Judith Orloff.
Preorder Judith Orloffâs new book for children, The Highly Sensitive Rabbit
Visit Judith Orloffâs website: www.drjudithorloff.com
Follow Judith Orloff on social media:
Instagram: @judith.orloff.mdFacebook: @DrJudithOrloffTwitter/X: @JudithOrloffMDAndrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall
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Today, the âfour pale horsemenâ of war, famine, pestilence and death have broken into our comfortable lives once again.
As the climate emergency and shortage become normalised, how do we live through crisis after crisis without falling into fear and anxiety on the one hand, or agitated reaction and rage on the other?
Do we face the horsemen, go into denial or settle for the dull throb of numbness? And how do we maintain contact with the heart, with soul, with love and compassion?
In this week's classic episode, Andrew speaks with award-winning poet, author and teacher William Ayot about:
âď¸The burdens men carry
âď¸The healing power of ritual
âď¸Male loneliness and how menâs groups help
âď¸Confronting shame and anger
As well as his writing and poetry, William Ayot leads workshops and seminars on personal development topics and creates and conducts private rituals and ceremonies. William is also the co-founding director of Olivier Mythodrama and worked around the world for ten years, teaching leadership through story, theatre practice and ritual. He founded NaCOT- The National Centre for the Oral Tradition, and hosts the poetry series On the Border.
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This week supporters will hear:
Creating a daily ritual for a deeper connection to life.Three Things William Ayot knows to be true. AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Attend Andrew's new men's retreat, Reconnect With Yourself, this autumn in the Brandenberg countryside near Berlin
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Visit William Ayotâs website for information on bespoke rituals, poetry etc
Visit William Ayot and Juliet Graysonâs online library of poetry and talks on shame, menâs issues and relationships
Join our Supporters Club to access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just ÂŁ4.50.
Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall
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Have you tried everything to fix your relationship, but nothing seems to work? Are you torn between staying and giving it one more try, or finally walking away?
This week, Andrew talks with renowned couples therapist MICHELE WEINER-DAVIS about how to navigate one of the hardest decisions in a relationship: When is it time to stop trying?
Michele is the creator of the âDivorce Bustingâ approach, which aims to empowers individual to make concrete, positive changes in their relationshipsâeven when their partner isnât on board. Her work is deeply hopeful, but she also understands that sometimes, despite our best efforts, it may be time to let go.
Together, Andrew and Michele explore:
Coping with different levels of sexual desire in your relationshipWhy one partner often wants change more than the otherCommon differences in how men and women communicateWorking together in therapy to make the "final call".Michele Weiner-Davis is an internationally renowned relationship expert, best-selling author, marriage therapist, and professional speaker who specializes in helping people change their lives and improve important relationships. She is the author of eight books including Healing from Infidelity: The Divorce Busting Guide to Rebuilding Your Marriage After an Affair, and The Sex-Starved Marriage: A Couple's Guide to Boosting Their Marriage Libido. Micheleâs work has also been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and on the BBC.
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This week supporters will hear:
How to Get Through to the Man You Love - Without Nagging. Three Things Michele Weiner-Davis knows to be true. AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Attend Andrew's new men's retreat, Reconnect With Yourself, this autumn in the Brandenberg countryside near Berlin
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Visit Michele Weiner Davisâs website: Divorce Busting
Read some of Michele Weiner Davisâs books:
Divorce Busting: A Revolutionary and Rapid Program for Staying Together Healing from Infidelity: The Divorce Busting Guide to Rebuilding Your Marriage After an AffairThe Sex-Starved Marriage: Boosting Your Marriage LibidoFollow Michele Weiner Davis on social media:
Facebook: Michele Weiner-DavisX (formerly Twitter): @DivorceBustingJoin our Supporters Club to access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just ÂŁ4.50.
Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall
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Are you living a life you really believe in, or are you filling in time until your âreal lifeâ begins? Are you waiting on marriage, a better job, a new exercise regime or a beautiful house to create an authentic life?
Humans do need to have goals and plans, but it is also destructive to ignore those inner voices telling us what would bring us individual meaning.
In this classic episode, Andrew and PHILIP CARR-GOMM discuss how to start developing your authentic self right now, rather than endlessly kicking that important ball further down the road.
Philip Carr-Gomm is an expert in psychosynthesis, an âawe-inspiring territory that has the power to transform usâ. He believes that something magical happens when the worlds of modern psychology and ancient spiritual teachings are brought together. Philip has studied Druidry extensively and from 1988-2020 was the leader of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. He has a degree in Psychology and has trained in psychotherapy, play therapy, Montessori education, yoga nidra, mindfulness meditation and Sophrology. Philip recently created an online school, The Art of Living Well, to offer courses combining psychological and spiritual understanding.
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This week supporters will hear:
Three Things Philip Carr-Gomm knows to be true. AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Attend Andrew's new men's retreat, Reconnect With Yourself, this autumn in the Brandenberg countryside near Berlin https://andrewgmarshall.com/mens-retreat/
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things https://andrewgmarshall.com/download/
Take a look at Philip Carr-Gommâs website
Find out more about the courses offered at Philipâs online school, The Art of Living Well
Follow Philip on Instagram at @philipcarrgomm and on Facebook at @philip.carrgomm
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How do you keep the spark alive in your relationship when there are kids involved and you have ten, twenty, or thirty years on the clock?
This week I talk to CAROLYN SHARP, a US-based marital therapist, and the author of Fire It Up: Four Secrets to Reigniting Intimacy and Joy in Your Relationship. We cover:
Purpose: could you define a purpose for your marriage?Sex: how to talk about it honestly and effectively. Conflict: handling disagreements betterHappiness: the habits that create lasting joyAcceptance: how practicing radical acceptance will feed your relationship.Carolyn has a master of social work from Portland State University and has extensive training in attachment, neuroscience, trauma, and mindfulness. She is an experienced couples therapist and coach, with twenty-five years of training and practice in helping people build vital, vibrant, and secure functioning relationships through one-on-one and group couples coaching, workshops, retreats, and intensives. She and her husband and dogs live in northern Massachusetts.
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This week supporters will hear:
How to totally accept your partnerThree Things Carolyn Sharp knows to be true. AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Attend Andrew's new men's retreat, Reconnect With Yourself, this autumn in the Brandenberg countryside near Berlin
Read Carolyn Sharpâs book, Fire It Up: Four Secrets to Reigniting Intimacy and Joy in Your Relationship.
Take a look at Carolyn Sharpâs retreats and couple coaching work, or at her therapy website,
Follow Carolyn Sharp on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram @secureconnectionscoach and on YouTube @carolynsharp9053
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âThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperationâ (Henry Thoreau).
In this classic episode, Andrew interviews therapist SIMON ROE. Simon has based his lifeâs work on helping men live an authentic life. After himself going through a period of quiet desperation in his mid-thirties, he went on to help men break the silence, find âthe song insideâ and overcome their experiences of depression, violence and loneliness.
Simon has also worked extensively with boys and their fathers to create rites of passage that help boys claim a strong, authentic sense of their developing manhood.
Simon Roe originally trained as a body psychotherapist, and is also a co-leader of the Mandorla Menâs Rites of Passage programme. He has worked extensively with perpetrators of domestic violence, and is a Respect approved trainer and supervisor. Simon is also trained in process oriented psychology.
Simon and Andrew also discuss the idea of answering âthe call to adventureâ, an idea powerfully captured in this poem by Rainer Maria Rilke:
Sometimes A Man Stands Up During Supper
Sometimes a man stands up during supper
and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking,
because of a church that stands somewhere in the East.
And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead.
And another man, who remains inside his own house,
dies there, inside the dishes and in the glasses,
so that his children have to go far out into the world
toward that same church , which he forgot.
Rainer Maria Rilke ( trans. Robert Bly)
If Youâre Looking for MoreâŚ.
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This week supporters will hear:
Three Things Simon Roe knows to be true. AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Take a look at Andrewâs new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools
Attend Andrew's new men's retreat, Reconnect With Yourself, this autumn in the Brandenberg countryside near Berlin.
Visit Simon Roeâs website
Learn about the Kingfisher Project, a community dedicated to rites of passage for boys aged 13-16.
Join our Supporters Club to access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just ÂŁ4.50.
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Many women long to be in a happy relationship, in which they feel safe, heard and understood, but have given up after years of disappointment and heartbreak. This week dating coach EVAN MARC KATZ joins Andrew to discuss why itâs so hard for women to find a man who wants to commit and to build a genuine relationship. They cover:
How to get psychologically prepared to date successfully. Knowing which compromises to make in the service of love. The difference between compromise and âsettlingâ. The importance of accepting men as they are, rather than viewing them as fixable works in progress. Balancing chemistry and compatibility in your relationship decisions. Evanâs personal experiences of dating frustration, and how they led him to write one of the first and most popular books about online dating.Evan Marc Katz is an author, CEO, podcaster, dating coach and former screenwriter who works to support strong, successful women to find lasting relationships. He has been featured by Today, the New York Times, and CNN. A total of 13,000 women from 40 countries have graduated from Love U, his coaching course and community that helps women understand men and find love.
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This week supporters will hear:
Dealing with Unavailable Men.Three Things Evan Marc Katz knows to be true. AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Take a look at Andrewâs new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools
Learn more about working with Evan Marc Katz on his website
Read Evan Marc Katzâs books
Listen to Evan Marc Katzâs Love U podcast
Follow Evan Marc Katz on Facebook @EvanMarcKatzfan, on Instagram @realevanmarckatz and on Twitter/X and YouTube @evanmarckatz.
Join our Supporters Club to access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just ÂŁ4.50.
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For Andrew, it is the writings of Dr James Hollis, one of the worldâs most eminent Jungian analysts, that have âsustained me through my dark timesâ. Dr Hollisâ books also regularly help Andrewâs marital therapy clients create change in their relationships and recover from infidelity.
In this classic reissued episode, Andrew speaks to James Hollis about what it means to be resilient - how do we discover and develop the strength nature gives us to âwalk through the forestâ when we inevitably hit dark times?
Bookshops and the internet are full of âfive steps to happinessâ style self-help manuals, telling us that if only we wake up earlier, change jobs, or eliminate caffeine, we will solve all our problems. In fact, life is fractious and difficult, and requires us to persist. The best way to do this is not an external solution, but to find and trust the strength within ourselves.
Dr. James Hollis is a Washington D.C. based Jungian psychoanalyst and the author of seventeen books. He was Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas for many years and Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington (JSW) until 2019. He also worked as a Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, as a Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is Vice-President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation.
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This week supporters will hear:
Three Things James Hollis knows to be true. AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Take a look at Andrewâs new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools
Take a look at James Hollisâ website
Read James Hollisâ book, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
Read Andrewâs review of James Hollisâ book Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places:
Join our Supporters Club to access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just ÂŁ4.50.
Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall
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Is your relationship a refuge from stress in a turbulent and demanding world? Do you always have each otherâs backs? OR has the stress you face at work or in the culture seeped into your home life and created a rift between you?
Marital therapist ELIZABETH EARNSHAW, the author of Til Stress Do Us Part, works with couples to identify and address the life stress that is undermining their partnership. In this episode, Andrew and Elizabeth discuss:
Setting effective boundariesSelf-soothing when life gets roughTaking responsibility for what makes you happyCommunicating with compassion rather than resentmentElizabeth Earnshaw is a marital therapist from Philadelphia in the US. She owns the practice A Better Life Therapy, and over the past 15 years she has supported thousands of couples as they navigate the ups and downs of life. Elizabeth has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and other national and international publications. She is also the author of I Want This To Work, 'Til Stress Do Us Part, and a therapist's guide called The Couples Therapy Flipchart.
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This week supporters will hear:
How to Deal with Hot Button TopicsThree Things Elizabeth Earnshaw knows to be true. AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Take a look at Andrewâs new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools
Buy Elizabeth Earnshawâs book, Til Stress Do Us Part: How to Heal the #1 Issue in our Relationships
Visit Elizabeth Earnshawâs website
Follow Elizabeth Earnshaw on Instagram @lizlistens
Join our Supporters Club to access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just ÂŁ4.50.
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When women and men argue, women can often be more comfortable in expressing their feelings of hurt and anger.
Men can feel distressed by this strength of feeling, and may pull away emotionally. They may feel a very strong urge to occupy the ground of rationality and objectivity, which in turn leads their partner to push harder, desperately seeking emotional connection.
Dr Avrum Weiss is a US-based author and psychotherapist specialising in the internal lives of men. His writing and his work with couples help men and women understand each other more deeply and build a stronger connection.
In this classic reissued episode, Andrew and Avrum discuss the emotion of anger and how our childhoods can influence our adult experiences of it. They share insights from Avrumâs book Hidden in Plain Sight: How Menâs Fears of Women Shape Their Intimate Relationships , and look at how men and women can better understand each otherâs internal world.
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You can subscribe to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Podcasts) and hear a bonus mini-episode every week. Or you can join our Supporters Club on Patreon to also access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just ÂŁ4.50.
This week supporters will hear:
Three Things Avrum Weiss knows to be true. AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Take a look at Andrewâs new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools
Buy Dr Avrum Weissâ book Hidden in Plain Sight: How Menâs Fears of Women Shape Their Intimate Relationships
Find Dr Avrum Weissâ other books via his website
Follow Dr Avrum Weiss on Facebook @AvrumWeissAuthor
Read Andrewâs books on relationships and self-development
Join our Supporters Club to access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just ÂŁ4.50.
Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall
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Does something feel off about your intimate relationships? According to author and couples therapist DenĂŠ Logan, the answer to your problem may lie in the interplay of your masculine and feminine energies.
Masculine and feminine polarities are present in every person and relationship. When weâre out of touch with the energetics within ourselves and those around us, it can create an internal struggle and sense of disharmony in our partnerships.
In this episode, Andrew and DenĂŠ discuss:
Understanding the polarities in your partnershipIntegrating masculine and feminine energiesMoving away from a codependent, transactional view of your relationshipSome of the historical and cultural reasons our relationships turn out the way they do.DenĂŠ Logan is an LA-based marriage and family therapist, who takes a depth psychology approach. She is also a group facilitator, public speaker, yoga and mindfulness instructor, and the co-host of the Cheaper than Therapy podcast. DenĂŠ is also a mentee to acclaimed couples therapist Esther Perel. Her book, Sovereign Love, was published in May 2024.
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You can subscribe to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Podcasts) and hear a bonus mini-episode every week. Or you can join our Supporters Club on Patreon to also access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just ÂŁ4.50.
This week supporters will hear:
How to heal the patriarchal mother wound. Three Things DenĂŠ Logan knows to be true. AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Take a look at Andrewâs new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools
Read DenĂŠ Loganâs book, Sovereign Love
Follow DenĂŠ Logan on Instagram @dene.logan and on TikTok @denelogan
Join our Supporters Club to access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just ÂŁ4.50.
Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall
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Life brings to all of us long periods where we feel lost or confused. We don't know how to get what we want, or even what it is that we want. The struggle to articulate the thing that might really make us âcome aliveâ can be profound, even if we enter therapy.
Charlotte Fox Weber is a psychotherapist, author and the founding head of The School of Life Psychotherapy. Her bestselling book, Tell Me What You Want, explores how to identify and navigate our deepest longings.
In this classic episode, Andrew and Charlotte discuss the idea that we have 12 fundamental desires: to love and be loved; understanding, power, attention, freedom; to create, to belong, to win, to connect, to control; and to want what we shouldn't.
Identifying how these desires play out in your life can be liberating and beautiful, even if you also realise that acting on them is impossible.
If Youâre Looking for MoreâŚ.
You can subscribe to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Podcasts) and hear a bonus mini-episode every week. Or you can join our Supporters Club on Patreon to also access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just ÂŁ4.50.
This week supporters will hear:
Three Things Charlotte Fox Weber knows to be true. AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Take a look at Andrewâs new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools
Read Charlotte Fox Weberâs new book, Tell Me What You Want
Follow Charlotte Fox Weber on Instagram @charlottefoxweberpsychotherapy and on Facebook @charlottefoxweber
Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall
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If youâre feeling anxious, meditation and mindfulness may not be the answer. Instead, author KARLA McLAREN would advise us to sit with the feelings of anxiety and hear the useful messages theyâre bringing to help us cope with a tricky situation.
In this episode, Andrew and Karla discuss:
How anger, shame and sadness can be the bearers of crucial information.âNegativeâ emotions and the skills and energy they can provide.Why understanding our emotions is so hard. How to engage with challenging emotions, when society has taught many of us itâs better to repress them.Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, educator, workplace consultant, and social science researcher. Her work revalues even the most ânegativeâ emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy. She is the founder and CEO of Emotion Dynamics Inc.
She is also the author of many books, including The Language of Emotions, The Power of Emotions at Work, and Embracing Anxiety, and she is the developer of the online learning site Empathy Academy.
If Youâre Looking for MoreâŚ.
You can subscribe to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Podcasts) and hear a bonus mini-episode every week. Or you can join our Supporters Club on Patreon to also access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just ÂŁ4.50.
This week supporters will hear:
How to Deal With ConfusionThree Things Karla McLaren knows to be true. AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Take a look at Andrewâs new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools
Read Karla McLarenâs new book The Language of Emotions Workbook
Read Karla McLarenâs other books
Visit Karla McLarenâs website
Find out about upcoming courses at the online learning site developed by Karla McLaren, Empathy Academy
Follow Karla McLaren @KarlaMcLarenAuthor on Facebook, @karlamclaren.m.ed on Instagram, @EmotionDynamics on YouTube and on LinkedIn.
Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall
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Have you ever felt so defeated and frustrated that you want to just throw in the towel and run away? Author KAY HUTCHISON did exactly that, fleeing her annual holiday to the Cote dâAzur, moving out of her home, and leaving behind her marriage and a well-established career.
In seeking to understand what forced this huge rupture in a previously smooth existence, Kay tried a range of mainstream and alternative therapies. In the end, she took part in 37 different forms of therapy to explore her particular midlife crisis and experience of the menopause. From colonic irrigation through to Shamanic therapy, Kay found solace and insight that she was able to share in her powerful book, My Life in 37 Therapies.
In this reissued classic episode, Kay and Andrew explore the many different ways in which therapy can help us cope with midlife, and its tendency to throw at us so many of the unresolved issues of early life.
Subscriber Content This Week
If youâre a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week youâll be hearing:
Three Things Kay Hutchison knows to be true. AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Take a look at Andrewâs new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools
Buy My Life in 37 Therapies by Kay Hutchison
Find out more about dealing with midlife and the relationship issues it can cause in Andrewâs book Itâs Not a Midlife Crisis, Itâs an Opportunity.
Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall
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Society teaches men that strength lies in ignoring their feelings and âsoldiering onâ. Author and relationship coach BRYAN REEVES has seen the costs of this approach both in his own personal life and those of his clients.
This week Andrew and Bryan discuss:
Bryanâs story of finding direction after leaving the US Air Force.The reasons why men resist unwanted feelingsThe damage this causes to their relationships with family and friends.A former US Air Force Captain, Bryan is an internationally renowned author, relationship coach and menâs coach. His blog, videos, courses, and books have been consumed by 50+ million people. Bryan co-hosts the popular podcast, âMen, This Way,â and his newest book, Choose Her Every Day (Or Leave Her) has so far sold over 10,000 copies as a self-published edition.
Subscriber Content This Week
If youâre a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week youâll be hearing:
Three Things Bryan Reeves knows to be true. Walk Away Man SyndromeAND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Read Bryan Reevesâ new book, Choose Her Every Day (Or Leave Her)
Listen to Bryan Reevesâ podcast Men, This Way.
Visit Bryan Reevesâ website
Follow Bryan Reeves on Instagram @bryanreevesinsight and on Facebook and TikTok @bryanreevesofficial.
Take a look at Andrewâs new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools
Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall
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Do you think about drinking alcohol more than you think about eating sandwiches? Do you spend significant amounts of time thinking about NOT drinking? Or are you one of the many with an uneasy feeling that alcohol is no longer bringing anything good into your life, and may well be holding you back?
Therapist and sobriety expert VERONICA VALLI had a problematic relationship with alcohol for twelve years. She has now been sober for twenty years, and has helped countless others give up drinking.
In this classic reissued episode Andrew and Veronica discuss:
âď¸How giving up alcohol can give you the energy and freedom to be your true self.
âď¸Why your friends may not always be your cheerleaders if you give up drinking.
âď¸Why a drinking problem is really a symptom of another, underlying problem.
âď¸What to do if your partner has an alcohol problem.
âď¸Extreme social pressure to drink and how to deal with it.
Veronica Valli has worked in the field of alcohol recovery for almost two decades. She is an author, podcaster and former clinical psychotherapist.
Subscriber Content This Week
If youâre a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week youâll be hearing:
Three Things Veronica Valli knows to be true. AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Take a look at Andrewâs new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools
Read Veronica Valliâs new book Soberful: Uncover a Sustainable, Fulfilling Life Free of Alcohol
Take a look at Veronica Valliâs website
Listen to Soberful: the Podcast
Find out about the Soberful private group on Facebook
Follow Veronica Valli on Instagram @veronicajvalli and on Facebook @soberfulpage
Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall
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Where did you find inspiration and meaning in 2024? This week sex therapist and friend of the podcast TRACEY COX joins Andrew to reflect on another year of The Meaningful Life, and to discuss the episodes that meant the most to them.
They share highlights from episodes with:
Samantha Rodman Whiten (Dr Psych Mom) on Being an Adult Child of Dysfunctional Parents.Jessica Baum on Anxious Attachment.Douglas Thomas on What You Can Learn About Yourself from Your Sexual Fantasies.Robert Glover on People PleasingRobert Neimeyer on the Six Tasks of GriefJoseph Lee on Jungian Dream Analysis (bonus material)Alan Pearce on Comas and Near-Death Experiences (bonus material).Subscriber Content This Week
If youâre a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week youâll be hearing:
More things we learned last year and first news on exciting new projects for 2025 AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Take a look at Andrewâs new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools
Buy Great Sex Starts at 50: How to Age-Proof Your Libido by Tracey Cox
Get the advice you need on your sex life from Tracey Cox
Listen to Tracey Cox and Kelsey Chittickâs SexTok podcast
Follow Tracey Cox on social media: Instagram, Facebook and Twitter/X.
Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall
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Itâs hard to move on social media these days without bumping into a post on gratitude. If youâre wondering what all the fuss is about, this weekâs classic interview with Chester Elton, âthe apostle of appreciationâ, is for you.
According to Chester, gratitude cuts to the heart of who we really are. Gratitude exists at an emotional level and is about WHO is in our lives, WHAT we find meaningful and HOW we live. If we make time for gratitude, we can find a way to live that makes everything less stressful.
Chester and Andrew also discuss the ways we can build gratitude into everyday life, adding meaning and lightness to our daily routines.
Chester Elton has carried out extensive research into how gratitude can help us lead in the workplace. His books, co-authored with Adrian Gostick, include Leading With Gratitude and All In: How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results.
Subscriber Content This Week
If youâre a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week youâll be hearing:
Three things Chester Elton knows to be true.AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Take a look at Andrewâs new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools
Read Chester Eltonâs Leading with Gratitude Book
Sign up for Chester Eltonâs free LinkedIn newsletter, The Gratitude Journal
Read Chester Eltonâs article on Why We Should be Grateful for Hard Times
Read Jay Shettyâs book Think Like A Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall
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Christmas is a time of heightened emotions: lots of fun, lots of food, plenty of arguments. This year Andrew invites friend of the podcast and love coach CATE MACKENZIE to explore what Christmas means to each of them.
Cate and Andrew discuss:
Their best and worst Christmas experiences. Christmas traditions that work.Most evocative Christmas songsCultivating the right mindset to make the most of ChristmasAccepting pain and disappointment if they arise.Cate Mackenzie is a COSRT Accredited Sex and Relationship Therapist, Love Coach and Artist. Her passion is supporting people to fall in love with themselves, with life and with others. Cate was the dating coach for Channel 4âs 'The Undateables', a flirting coach on Channel 5's 'The Jeremy Vine Show' and a Sex Therapist on Channel 4's 'Kinky Britain'. Her heart paintings have been sold in 80 countries worldwide through IKEA.
Subscriber Content This Week
If youâre a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week youâll be hearing:
Different Christmases for Different Times in Your LifeThree things Cate Mackenzie knows to be true.AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Take a look at Andrewâs new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools
Visit Cate Mackenzieâs website
Listen to Cate Mackenzieâs podcast, Love, Pleasure and Joy with Cate Mackenzie
Follow Cate Mackenzie on LinkedIn and Twitter @CateMackenzie and Instagram @Catemmackenzie
Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall
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Do we need a complete rethink of the rituals we use to mark the end of life? This week Andrew talks to undertaker and author RU CALLENDER about what heâs learnt over the course of his career.
Ru Callender became an undertaker in order to offer people a more honest experience than the stilted formality of traditional âVictorianâ funerals. Driven by raw emotion and the unresolved grief of losing his own parents, Ru brought an outsider, âDIYâ ethos to the business of death.
Ru has carried coffins across windswept beaches, sat in pubs with caskets on beer-stained tables, helped children fire flaming arrows into their fatherâs funeral pyre, turned modern occult rituals into performance art and, with the band members of the KLF, is building the Peopleâs Pyramid of bony bricks in Liverpool â all in the name of creating truly authentic experiences that celebrate those who are no longer here and those who remain.
Subscriber Content This Week
If youâre a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week youâll be hearing:
How to design a ritualThree things Ru Callender knows to be true.AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.Follow Up
Get Andrewâs free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Take a look at Andrewâs new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools
Read Ru Callenderâs book, What Remains? Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking
Follow Ru Callender on X/Twitter @wayswithweirds
Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall
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